By sponsoring the Newcastle Robotics Laboratory which hosts the NUbots and NUManoids you will be given the opportunity to:

• Be involved with cutting edge research into robotics and machine intelligence.
• Support a team of some of the most talented students of our University.
• Be part of the exciting national and international RoboCup initiative. This is a yearly large scale high profile technology (and sports !) event with extremly high publicity involving many of the best robotics research groups and centres from around the world.

The Newcastle Robotics Laboratory hosts the NUManoids/NUbots competition team and is engaged in a variety of robotics research projects and associtated publicity events. During the last three years the laboratory has published a series of research articles and is attracting excellent students and researchers. With your help we will further and quickly advance the applications of robotics related technologies, demonstrate students' skills and enthusiams for new technology and connect to the public.

Following the tremendous success of our research group and the competition team in the past six years we seek sponsoring partners to be able to continue and expand our acitivities. Some ideas of what sponsors could do:

• Support of our student competition team to be able to participate in the yearly RoboCup event.
• Summer scholarships for undergraduate students: To encourage new undergraduate students to research and prepare for the competitions, we are seeking summer scholarships at a cost of approx $3,000 per student.
• Masters/PhD scholarships: To encourage postgraduate students to do research and development in the robotics lab we require research scholarships at a cost of $20,000 per year per student for 3 years. Linkage with external industry projects are possible (see more details below).
• Postdoctoral position: Some of our current research students would like to continue their work in the Newcastle Robotics Lab after finishing their theses and degrees. For these highly skilled researchers we require funding for a postdoctoral position. Linkage with interested industry collaborators is encouraged.
• For the next years we plan a series of new research projects in application areas related to robotics, signal processing, and artificial intelligence. By becoming a sponsoring partner you can become involved in the development of exiting new technologies for the future.

Benefits for sponsors can include, for example:

• Team or laboratory naming rights
• Company web recognition
• Story in the faculty’s newsletter – EBE News
• Company logo on team T-shirts
• Invitation to faculty donor event
• Research collaboration with our highly skilled team of experts

ARC Linkage grant possibility: The Australian Research Council (ARC) has a grant scheme to support collaboration between industry and university. Through this scheme collaborative projects can receive substantial leverage on initial cash contributions.

Note that the NUbots are a high profile group which achieved a world champion title in 2006. They have attracted media attention in press, radio, TV, live TV, nationally and internationally with a circulation of over a million in past years. The lab is also very successful in research and education of research students.

To discuss possibilities of reseach collaboration and/or sponsorship please contact the director Dr. Stephan Chalup, phone: +61 2 492 16080.

For more information on how sponsorship can be of benefit to your organisation please contact Angela Henderson on +61 2 492 17840 or at Angela.Henderson@newcastle.edu.au or the computer science and software engineering marketing coordinator Dr. Joe Ryan at Joe.Ryan@newcastle.edu.au.